2026: Week 8, Quiz 5

Here are today’s questions. Answers will be published on Monday. The theme for this week ran from Mon-Thu; a new theme will come up on Monday.

And the questions follow:

  1. Which 1839 painting by British artist JMW Turner, set on the Thames River, features along with his self-portrait on the British £20 banknote?
  2. What 1819 painting by the French painter Theodore Gericault depicts a moment from the aftermath of a French ship running aground off Mauritania?
  3. The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama is an 1864 oil painting by Edouard Manet, based on the naval battle of Cherbourg off the coast of France, in which conflict?
  4. An 1859 painting by Daniel Maclise, an 1806 painting by Benjamin West, and an 1807 painting by Arthur Devis, all depict what event that is believed to have occurred at 430 PM on October 21, 1805?
  5. Which artist, born in Paris in 1848, drew Seascape with cow on the edge of a cliff in 1888 during his Breton period?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 8, Quiz 4:

  1. Dhakshineswar Suresh
  2. Ramesh Krishnan
  3. Henri Leconte, Arnaud Boetsch
  4. Marcelo Rios
  5. Theme: Last words of Chetan Bhagat novels
    • (Five Point) Someone
    • (One Night at the Call) Center
    • (Two) States
    • (Half) Girlfriend